UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA

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ORDER OF EVENTS

Processional Performed by Les Block, DDS, Associate Professor, Public Health Administration

Welcoming Remarks Tamara Joyce, Student Senate President

Speaking for the Academic Health Center Frank Cerra, MD, Provost

Speaking for the School of Public Health Edith Leyasmeyer, PhD, MPH, Dean

Presentation of the Richard G. Bond Scholarship Award by Donald Velsey, PhD, Major Chair, Environmental and Occupational Health, presenting to Nancy Rice

Presentation of the Herbert Bosch Award by Donald Vesley, PhD, Major Chair, Environmental and Occupational Health, presenting to John Schumpert

Presentation of the Minnesota Public Health Association Student Achievement Award by jean Forster, PhD, Major Chair, Community Health Education, presenting to Elizabeth Reinhardt

Presentation of the Public Health Administration Community Service Award by Bright Dornblaser, MHA, Professor, presenting to Christine Follett

Presentation of the Lee and Donna Stauffer Scholarship by Bright Dornblaser, MHA, Professor, presenting to Michelle Roppe

Presentation of the Jacob E. Bearman Student Achievement Award by Thomas Louis, PhD, Professor and Division Head presenting to Wei Shen

Presentation of the Lester Breslow Scholar Award by Phyllis Pirie, PhD, Associate Division Head, Epidemiology, presenting to Pamela Mink

Presentation of the Robert ten Bensel Award in Maternal and Child Health by joan Patterson, PhD, Major Chair, Maternal and Child Health, presenting to julia foseph-DiCaprio

Presentation of the Betty J. Hallstrom Memorial Award by Vernon E. Weckwerth, PhD, Major Chair, Health Services Administration, presenting to Tabitha Hanson

Presentation of the Ruth Stief Chair Award by Judith Brown, PhD, MPH, RD, presenting to ]ill Wilson

Presentation of the William Foege Scholarship by Lance Waller, PhD, Chair, SPH Recognition and Honors Committee, presenting to Dung Truong

Presentation of Delta Omega Society Memberships by Leonard Schuman, MD, National President, Delta Omega, presenting to Scott Anderson, MPH, Health Services Administration Donna Bailey, MPH, Public Health Nutrition Bradley Beard, MHA, Healthcare Administration Ellen England, MS, Environmental Health Stacy Hakanson, MS, Health Services Research and Policy Patricia King, MS, Environmental Health Bridget Lavelle, MHA, Healthcare Administration Kimberly McManigal, MHA, Healthcare Administration Rebecca Olson, MHA, Healthcare Administration Dawn Peterson, MPH, Epidemiology Carolyn Rosenfeld, MPH, Community Health Education Yingjia Shen, MS, Biostatistics Jean Tracy, MPH, Public Health Administration Kirsten Zimmerman-Bence, MPH, Maternal and Child

Health

Introduction of Commencement Speaker Edith Leyasmeyer, PhD, MPH, Dean

Commencement Address "The Invisible Force For Good" Neal Holtan, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor,

Medicine

Presentation of the Candidates for Degrees Edith Leyasmeyer, PhD, MPH, Dean ]ames Boen, PhD, Associate Dean for Academic

Affairs

Conferring of Degrees The Honorable julie Bleyhl, Regent University of Minnesota

Concluding Remarks Tamara joyce, Student Senate President

Health Professions Covenant

As a health professional dedicated to enhancing the health care status and well-being of individuals and communities, I pledge collaboration with all of my health professional colleagues similarly committed, and promise to place patient and public interests above the perceived self-interests of my individual profession.

School of Public Health University of Minnesota

Students who have or will have completed requirements for MHA, MPH, MS, or PhD degrees in School of Public Health

majors from Fall Quarter 1995 through Second Summer Session 1996 are as follows:

Environmental Health David Holland, MS Jeffrey Adams, MPH Elisabeth Black, MS John Buresh, MPH Cindy Calease, MS Stuart Cameron, MPH Tracey Chabala, MPH Ellen England, MS Gabe Garlets, MPH Steve Kerr, MS Patricia King, MS Frank Kohlasch, MS Linda Kornfeld, MS James Kubisiak, MS Patricia McCann, MS Josh Melson, MPH Eric Merchant, MPH Claudia Miller, MS Nancy Nachreiner, MPH Asit Patnaik, MPH Jane Rodiles, MPH Laurie Schmitz, MPH Ann Schowalter, MS Terry Spear, PhD Heather Swanson, MPH William Taborn, MPH Fernando Tibayan, MPH Nobuhiko Yamada, MS

Bios ta tis tics Catherine Billups, MS David Breiter, MS Erin Conlon, MS Anna Gaichas, MS Katherine Hullsiek, MS Zihui Lin, MS David Lynch, MS Christopher Pulling, MS Daniel Sargent, PhD Wei Shen, PhD Yingjia Shen, MS Xiaolong Shih, MS Xuewei Wang, MS JunXie,MS Yongyi Yu, MS Dongmei Zhang, MS

Community Health Education Mala Adiga, MPH Deborah Durkin, MPH Marla Eisenberg, MPH Mary Hovind, MPH Cynthia Hynes, MPH Sonja Ihlenfeldt, MPH Deborah Lasher, MPH Devora Lomas, MPH Huy Pham, MPH Elizabeth Reinhardt, MPH Carolyn Rosenfeld, MPH

Dental Public Health Edward Lawler, MPH

Epidemiolozy Elizabeth Anderson, MPH Le Ann Bahe, MPH Karen Brasel, MPH Eryn Butkiewicz, MPH Kathryn Como, MPH Alison King, MPH Karen Kirk, MPH Linda Kolar, MPH Randall Mayer, MPH Dawn Peterson, MPH Roxanne Pieper, MPH David Power, MPH Susan Raatz, MPH juan Salazar, MPH Kay Schwebke, MPH Dung Truong, MPH

Health Services Administration Scott Anderson, MPH Jean Beckel, MPH Marilee Blair, MPH Barbara Burgurn-Lee, MPH Raella Gustafson, MPH Janet Holmes, MPH Debra Leffler, MPH Linda Manning, MPH Victoria Quirk, MPH Stacy Scholtz, MPH john Smylie, MPH Rita Winters, MPH

Health Services Research and Policy Xiaohong Chen, MS Stacy Hakanson, MS

Jeffrey Harman, MS Win-Chieh Lin, MS Monica Schultz, MS Peter Veazie, MS

Health Services Research, Policy and Administration Katherine Harris, PhD Mei Mei Chen, PhD

Healthcare Administration Ronald Ascher, MHA Matthew Barnes, MHA Bradley Beard, MHA Edward Bell, MHA David Bertoch, MHA Shari Breuer, MHA Kelly Duffin, MHA Jerrell Gerdes, MHA Jamal Ghani, MHA Ronald Gosnell, MHA Jena Graber, MHA David Hall, MHA Kenneth Harman, MHA Stephen Hathaway, MHA Wendy Hoffman, MHA Bridget Lavelle, MHA Frank Lawatch, MHA Dean Lin, MHA Joseph Lohrman, MHA Hok Cheung Ma, MHA Vladimir Makatzareya, MHA Nicholas Michel, MHA Kimberly McManigal, MHA Patricia Murphy, MHA David Nelson, MHA Michael Nelson, MHA Angela Nielsen, MHA Rebecca Olson, MHA

Michael Packnett, MHA Alison Page, MHA Bill Persinger, MHA Mary Rapps, MHA James Restall, MHA Carrie Rohr, MHA Robin Schluter, MHA Hoyt Skabelund, MHA Lisa Strunc, MHA Karyn Taeyerts, MHA Annette Walker, MHA Carol Walker, MHA David Ziolkowski, MHA

Maternal and Child Health Amy Cocharane, MPH Cecelia Goetz, MPH Tabitha Hanson, MPH Karen Kun, MPH Cristina Lammers, MPH Karen Lindberg, MPH Meghan McGrann, MPH Elizabeth Musolf, MPH Mary Lynn Oglesbee, MPH Barbara Palmer, MPH David Rak, MPH Kirsten Zimmerman-Renee, MPH

Public Health Administration Kristin Bear, MPH J. Santiago Davila, MPH Kim Edelman, MPH Eric Engstrom, MPH Kimberly Halva, MPH Susan Mehle, MPH Richard Nadeau, MPH Michelle Roppe, MPH Carolyn Sullivan, MPH

Public Health Nursin~ Lanice Engebretson, MPH Monica Lidral, MPH

Public Health Nutrition Kristin Anderson, MPH Donna Bailey, MPH Nancy Corbin, MPH Susan Davies, MPH Susan Eckhardt, MPH Terri Fields Hosler, MPH Sara Gorder, MPH Yvonne Greer, MPH Mary Gregg, MPH Annette Hendrickx Derouin, MPH Catherine Imdieke, MPH Kenneth Johnson, MPH Donna Knaeble, MPH Brenda Knudson, MPH Kimber Lampe, MPH Donna Lewis, MPH Therese Liffrig, MPH Donna McDuffie, MPH Debbie Montgomery, MPH Agnes Otieno, MPH Dorothy Silha, MPH Mary Silha, MPH Lisa Stark, MPH Julie Stauss, MPH LaVonne Stieler, MPH Felisha Thompson Rhodes, MPH

Commencement Reception: All graduates and their guests are invited to the reception on the first floor of the St. Paul Student Center which immediately follows the ceremony. A special thank you to the School of Public Health Student Senate for their partial funding of the commencement reception.

ACADEMIC DRESS

The aCildemic costume worn today originated in the Middle Ages, when gowns and hoods kept scholars and clerics warm. The distinctive gown served to set the students apart from their fellow citizens, giving birth to the expression "town and gown." Until after the Civil War, students at most American universities wore caps and gowns daily. They varied in design until they were standardized by the American Intercollegiate Commission in 1894. At that time it was decided that all robes should be black: bachelor's gowns to be made of worsted material with pointed sleeves; master's gowns of silk with long, closed sleeves; doctor's gowns of silk with longer sleeves and faced with black velvet from hem to neck and back. They also carried three velvet bands around each sleeve above the elbow. Hoods are made of the same material as the gowns, the length varying with the degree. The lining of the hood identifies the university by its colors. The border of the hood indicates the academic discipline in which the degree is earned:

White: arts and letters, journalism Scarlet: theology

Purple: law Green: medicine

Dark blue: philosophy Yellow: science

Brown: architecture, fine arts Pink: music

Lilac: dentistry Orange: engineering

Olive: pharmacy Light brown: business

Lemon yellow: library science Light blue: education

Peacock blue: international affairs Citron yellow: social work

Salmon: public health

The mortarboard cap is standard, though soft square-topped-caps are permissible. Recipients of doctorates may wear a gold tassel fastened to the middle point of the top of the cap; School of Public Health graduates wear salmon tassels.